The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.

Fear comes with middle age.